Hannah’s Will, II
Will Book, page 415
State of Ohio
Jefferson County
At a Court of Common Pleas begun and held at Steubenville, in and for said County of Jefferson, on Monday the 28th day of August A.D. 1843, among other proceedings had at said Court was the following, to wit.
In the matter of the
Last Will and Testament
of Hannah S. Kerlin, dec’d
This day a paper writing purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Hannah S. Kerlin, late of the County of Jefferson, deceased, was brought into Court and William Hamilton, a subscribing witness thereto, being first duly sworn , and the said paper writing being exhibited to him he did depose and say “I saw the said Hannah S. Kerlin (dec’d sign said paper writing as and for her last Will and Testament, I signed the same as a witness in her presence and at her request, the said Hannah S. Kerlin, at the time of the signing thereof was of sound mind and memory, of the full age of twenty one years and was under no restraint.” And Joseph Kitchcart, another subscribing witness to said paper writing having the same exhibited to him and being also
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duly affirmed he did depose and say “I saw the said Hannah S. Kerlin, deceased, sign the said paper writing as and for her last Will and Testament. I signed the same as a witness in her presence and at her request, the said Hannah S. Kerlin, at the time of the signing thereof was of sound mind and memory of the full age of twenty one years and was under no restraint.” And the Court being satisfied that the said paper writing had been duly executed published and declared by the Hannah S. Kerlin in her lifetime as and for her last Will and Testament the same is admitted to probate and together with the foregoing evidence ordered to be recorded. Thereupon Henry T. Kerlin the Executor named in said Will and residuary legatee appeared in the open Court and took upon himself the execution of said last Will and Testament. Bond ordered to be given in the sum of Five hundred dollars ( $500-) Joseph Kitchcart and William B. Kerlin were approved of as securities.
John S. Patterson